in egypt there are signs mohamed morsi might be giving in to opposition pressure after tens of thousands converge on the presidential palace but dialogue remains a distant prospect. i would be highly skeptical of the intelligence rendered by the one hundred forty plus billion dollar us intelligence community that is to weapons of mass destruction in the possession of another country period the us and britain one creasing a building up a case against syria claiming it's preparing to use chemical weapons we look at whether the rug lesson has been learned. meanwhile the u.k. seeking to change the e.u. arms embargo on syria to step up help for the rebels despite fears the aid could fall into the hands of radical islamists. plus

a tragic turn to in the coverage of the u.k. royal pregnancy well this is where just suicide of a nurse and all the focus of a frenzy which some say has gone too far. twenty four hours a day seven days a week this is our t. they gyptian opposition is growing pressure on president morsi is starting to yield results following days of protests culminating in the tens of thousands strong march on the presidential palace this friday signs appear that these climbers leda might give in to one of the key demands a controversial referendum on an islamic led constitution could be delayed but that still would not guarantee an end to the standoff as cairo based reporter beltran explains. the president may see the referendum for aspirants here in egypt provided

the opposition forces open dialogue with the president's without preconditions which people see on the streets as meaning without the rest their demands here the presidential palace doesn't say the spontaneous it's an overnight in protest of this controversial decrees that president morsi released two weeks ago which they see as a power grab and of course the constitution which is going to refer in the next week which bases dismissed as it was written by an islamist dominated constitutional assembly overnight scenes here were tense as the muslim brotherhood's gathered in nearby mosques to the presidential palace and the rumors that they would march on the city and how that never happens the scenes were very calm after we witnessed extraordinary scene yesterday when hundreds of thousands of protesters just outside the presidential palace in front of republican guard barricades storms the republican guards who essentially stepped aside and let the. protesters through to the gates of the presidential palace so they could continue

their protest right in front of the gates shouting leave morsi leave and against the constitution very emotional scenes here on the streets meanwhile the opposition forces in the national salvation front have said they will not budge they have a list of key demands which includes the referendum being stopped and also the constitutional declaration this contentious decree being revoked they said they will not speak to the president and until you listen to the demands of the moment the president is sticking by his guns to really we're still seeing a deadlock here in egypt. keeping an eye on developments in cairo and then one of the latest updates as she has posted on twitter she told how the military is again not making a concrete barricade outside the presidential palace at this time even hala one of our tweets on r g underscore. made it all reports image of sion media suggests president morsi will soon authorize the military to help police keep order but some analysts fear the army is close involvement would mean the

country plunging deeper into political chaos. at this point you should have known the gathering the trust and good will of the egyptian people is more important than any specific action he wants to accomplish so things are really very dangerous in egypt now and i hope the violence will follow the strand of confrontations in front of the presidential palace my fears are that the military missed the. clear clear of the dark for himself i don't think it's dangerous in terms of morsi using to run this power to crush and kill thousands and thousands of egyptians i don't think he will go that route so my feeling is only from the military and military have a history of doing those things in egypt or elsewhere. and public outrage is also spilling onto the streets of kuwait later this hour we'll report from but also once

thought to be one of the most stable gulf monarchies shall seem to be sucked up by the next chapter of the arab spring. british police are still giving no details about the death of a nurse who was fooled by a prank telephone call about the pregnant duchess of cambridge the uncertainty only adds more speculation over the already headline grabbing story of britain's royal baby which is now taking a tragic twist as artie's political reports some are suggesting the frenzy had already reached a feverish level of media coverage. all this taking place against a backdrop of intense media speculation a real media circus the whole pos week over news that kate middleton is pregnant we've seen discussions about whether or not kate could be having twins if kate has twins which of the babies potential babies would be the ones succeeding to the throne if it was if they were delivered by c.

section it would be the physician potentially deciding it is the successor to the british monarchy we've seen bookmakers taking bets on what this baby might be called predictions that this will already be the most popular name in britain as soon as the name is announced all this you know when we've got real news taking place in syria a political crisis in egypt and. the press much more interested in kate middleton's acute morning sickness i'm joined by cost curve in the studio here with me he's a london journalist who's been following the story cost a tragic wake up call to the sri yeah. it certainly should be. very very tragic case the circumstances under which are still under investigation by the police but the real issue is of course the media which blew itself out of proportion i believe the daily mail when a student david story broke the daily mail devoted fourteen its first fourteen or thirteen pages of the newspaper one of the most read newspapers in the country to

the royal baby we've just had the leveson inquiry a damning report about the state of the british media and now this is this more criticism for the british media in the way it's following these stories while there is other news taking place and internationally well again it should be but it isn't because the media is trying to deflect attention away and is calling for the hanging of the to australian great radio deejays the media is not questioning the monochord coverage they are devoting to your family and what consequences the abuse may have been if the individual's life if we had. a media which was more reasonable just when that happened if the suicide is actually proven to be related to you to what happened there you have it now the jew and duchess of cambridge have said that deeply saddened by the news the tragic news of this the death of the royal not so what should have been a joy for the pregnancy announcement has been you know some say because of the disproportionate media coverage turned into

a very tragic news story. just to remind you you can always check our to use twitter feed for the latest news updates current real london bureau is following the protests in the city against starbucks and we activists have threatened to all keep by the company's shops with a negligible corporation tax if it's paid in britain despite the dreadful news more pictures and videos from the day of action on our twitter page. britain has joined the u.s. in claims they have intelligence suggesting syria might be preparing to use chemical weapons well some countries have sent the use of such weapons would

trigger a foreign military intervention the situation is increasingly drawing parallels to with the run up to the invasion of iraq ten years ago he has begun to form a u.s. state department chief of stuff lawrence wilkerson who is behind the report laying out the case for the iraq war we are the same what he thinks is next will syria and how justifiable the fear is opposite its chemical arsenal. i would be highly skeptical of any intelligence rendered by the one hundred forty plus billion dollar us intelligence community as to weapons of mass destruction in the possession of another country period i'm not violating any great confidence or any great prohibition in the intelligence community to tell you that we've known for years years that syria has chemical weapons stockpiles just as iraq had chemical weapons stockpiles for a while but the fact that president assad would be moving them around and preparing

them for use against his own citizens within his own territory i frankly find preposterous i think that if we were to intervene in a substantial way that is to say we were to put troops on the ground marines soldiers and so forth and we were to do in syria what we began to do in march of two thousand and three in iraq it would be even worse than iraq i think also that it would be again a back door as a war into iran which is the as you well know the real threat that we've been putting out there for years now so i think you're looking at a combination here not just syria i think ultimately the target is iran. and for their first against president assad version is looking to press its european partners to review the arms embargo on syria lebanon says it wants to help rebel groups more buy a greater agent shipments of military gear but as archie is our first explains the european military aid could end up in the wrong hands. the clay foreign office is

concerned that this week britain is going to be seeking an amendment to the arms embargo on syria making it easier to help the opponents the syrian president bashar al assad now a foreign office official has said that the practical support is likely to include training and non-lethal equipment britta want to play a role in syria after the other regime falls because. they would like to be involved. so therefore. wants to back the winning side. there will provide. the trouble of. the counter i did for eventually. which side would you support. what would be the interests of the militia. here when they take part because the danger is there is new. leader of the opposition twenty.

therefore if bashar al assad leaves power. in syria then. a part. of these twenty in fact for one another at the end of the day it's going to be the syrians are going to decide not britain france you know. now currently items such as body armor and night vision goggles of course up in that arms embargo and say the amendment would allow items like that to be deployed of course throughout the conflict in syria we've seen an increasingly fragmented opposition and so there is a lot of concern that the supply of any weaponry could well end up in the wrong hands nonetheless britain will be pushing ahead this week seeking that amendment. one is coming your way in day out as close to making a huge leap in medical progress as it develops an affordable music scene that could save lives that are more aftershocks gray.

day starts at five am earlier in the winter tending to his flock of story hundred sheep in the mountains and plains of t.v. thirty five years old it wasn't the life he dreamt of having studied accounting but he just and familiar dictated that he would take on the care of these animals after his father. he's just made camp at their winter farm stage setting up his ute judicial to fenian round tent made of diskin. his p.c. back amongst his family as his job is a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving streams of plus to minus forty degrees celcius says there are still there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone my sister works with my mother my mother is seventy five she's very old and i miss mountains when i'm in town and i

spend a lot of time here. so most of us are simply carrying out the work that his father did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries and that's half the problem it's hard work and many people don't want to come into the industry now and that's where they fit their could die out altogether. it's difficult to manage everything alone i used to have people who helped me but they were no good they didn't take care of the sheep with all their heart they hurt the cattle dogs. with more people leaving than coming to the countryside the region's government is having to act making the life of a herd and more attractive than promising largest subsidies for produce and livestock and organizing cooperatives for the sale of day products to ensure the herd a gets a higher fairer price i sympathize with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life though in their publics capitol hill but he no longer wishes to

join them he enjoys his pastoral way of life now looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm with more time on his hands he says matter of fact he can start to look for a new wife. you're watching are to good to have you with us while countries like egypt may now be turning another page in its arab spring revolution one of the oldest gulf monarchies are still on page one largely unnoticed in the west coase rulers are cracking down on protesters and blocking the opposition's political moves but all of this is energizing the resistance even more as are she is not reports. tensions are simmering beneath the calm as those seeking political change

a horse to wait. until a powerful nation although it's been ruled by the same family for more than two centuries kuwait is widely seen as the most democratic of the gulf monarchies get some young kuwaitis beg to differ there is a few countries. but. it's just. the government says that it is doing all it can to maintain stability supporters of the ruling family point out that a boast a robust public life with electoral traditions and a vibrant parliament for youth activists. that's not enough the opposition consists of an unlikely alliance of youth groups hard line islamists and local tribes who are ramping up their calls for reform increasingly they've taken their message to the street where peaceful demonstrations have been met with an iron fist we were beaten up by. the special forces. the sound.

and after the march. on the streets just being. critics of kuwait's government claim it turns a blind eye to allegations of widespread corruption and the use of security forces to crush dissenting voices ask for the rule of law so we have a law that is being used whenever the government feels like using the riffs here began years before the arab spring protests but have intensified over a series of political crises the opposition dominated parliament was dismissed earlier this year following a row with the ruling establishment the electoral law was then changed prompting many to boycott kuwait's most recent parliamentary vote the resulting divide is unlikely to be bridged anytime soon and it leaves the monarchy with an energized opposition eager to make itself heard. the shouts. like this one bringing me through with your current rate cut down to what people are trying to hide by taking

the street that there are going to be the local system we want more freedom more private capital management projects like this one show us that almost isn't enough to it was true. we're going to say in the future how that future plays out well light the next chapter of the arab spring you see kathy r.t. . to some other world news now the twenty fifth anniversary of the palestinian islamist group hamas has brought tens of thousands of its supporters together in gaza the key event of the speech by the party's leader khaled mashal who is visiting from exile is expected to unveil the future strategy for the movement including a reconciliation with its rival fatah newsreader was invited to the celebration. a police officers were injured and at least twelve people detained after overnight riots in northern ireland british protesters clashed with police over the consul's

vote to remove the u.k. flag from belfast city hall police have tightened security and a brace for more demonstrations expected late on saturday the recent rally is of the second this week after violent clashes between protesters and police on monday . but less than a month left before the e.u. was decides whether to make drastic spending cuts and raise taxes to reduce the debt or come up with other solutions it's feared an abrupt attempt to shrink the debt could send the economy sinking straight into recession r. g.'s a resident does in new york to find out what people think. america is about to go over the fiscal cliff are you worried what should we do about it this week let's talk about that do you know the fiscal cliff. do you think a lot of americans do you know so then why is the media talking about it

incessantly. i i guess i have not as informed as i should be but i just kind of figure it might work out do you think most people feel that way you know even most the word i think they are and i think that if i ignored it all go away do you think calling it something like the fiscal cliff minimizes the yes and no i definitely agree that it's a complex problem i don't think it simplifies it though i think it adds an element of panic or fear looming. doom and the media loves that yeah i do think there's actually something to worry about or do you think it's something the politicians and the media used to distract us from what's really going on politics and media for sure so what's really going on that they're distracting us from. their own personal agendas if they're not really trying to work together there are three business channels we're in twenty four hours a day and it's good news nothing else is happening we're already caught in one so we move on and we just talk about the fiscal cliff correct i always carry every body everybody in their system even though nothing's really going to change because

the economy sucks anyway oh i think it'll change i just don't think they're going to i think about whether or not americans are worried about the fiscal cliff the bottom line is the media is milking the crap out of the fray while realistically nothing drastic is probably going to happen. while the u.s. government finances huge deficit maxon stacy a haitian discuss the so-called hollywood accountant schemes the policy even more pressure on the economy here's a quick preview of the full kaiser report coming up later today. burgeoning as. that these are monies that are for pensions for police nurses you know hospital workers farman and this money that is taken out of their paycheck every week is put into these retirement funds and then the state intercedes they collateralized those funds back a bond which i'm sure the rating agencies moody's picture s. and p.

of course i'm sure they gave a good rating and then the hollywood people came in and stole that money and then those people lose their pension accounts and you know one of the things in america that's really one of the greatest tragedies is how the firemen the policemen the workers the teachers the people who actually work for a living not steal money like on wall street are basically financially raped every single day by these people so. drug companies invest huge sums into creating new kinds of medicine to tackle the world's deadliest diseases but due to cost their products often out of reach for many people across the developing world now scientists in india coming closer to creating a vaccine to save the lives of thousands of babies but just the price of a dollar. has. this is india's genome valley inside these quiet sterile labs there's a revolution taking place that could change the world's approach to public health

and potentially save the lives of one hundred thousand indian children every year bharath biotech is an indian firm developing a one dollar vaccine against rotavirus a disease which causes diarrhea in infants and is deadly in the developing world but i think also like a new generation of those like us ok money making is also important but them solving the life saving those life or corner doesn't she was also pretty critical a new study shows india is leading the way in treating people in remote areas in battling diseases which are shunned by the big pharmaceutical companies because immunizations in the developed world have all but a blitter rated them there are a lot of the focus of their children to shareholders are good in mind but it was a value you would research for one billion dollars on the product i mean to five billion dollars says india's leap into innovating for the under-served began when the country began complying with the global intellectual property law it forced them to stop making only cheap copies of existing drugs and branch out instead into

new research and development creating vaccines isn't the only way to battle in the collective diseases diagnostic tests are also key to identifying what the problem is this fabric chip is being developed here to chair a lab in bangalore the idea is with just one drop of blood on the spot for me you could diagnose at home or in a doctor's office potentially reaching millions of people in this country who don't have access to proper health care dr done jiah done the koori the brains behind the fabric chip believes that other more profit driven companies will start to take an interest once they realize just how big this market really is a volume going to play just like the strips or the ones there's like millions or billions of this being so no matter how cheap the trying is and people do get interested maybe the price points out like a lot of money to do it in the western. it starts making sense taking matters into their own hands to save the lives of their country's people and not waiting for the

big profit driven pharmaceutical companies to make the first play preassure either r.t. bangalore india. just ahead here on our team we have the all cloak for you with the unemployment figures coming up on capital account but harnessed. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. wealthy british style.

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good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren mr here in washington d.c. viz your headlines for friday december seventh two thousand and twelve is jobs day u.s. jobs numbers for november came in better than expected with the b.l.s. report showing one hundred forty six thousand jobs were added much more than expected and the unemployment rate fell to seven point seven percent but why did the rate went down because more people left the labor force and when you look at the lack of exciting increases in wages that also comes out in this report what should we really make of it all and what does that portend for housing which our guest barry habib mortgage exact thinks has been a bright spot for the economy we'll hear from a plus brace yourself the f one c meets next week and some are forecasting the fed may announce more bond purchases after they do so so what is the antidote to.